Reporter Doodles 2

As many of my peers in journalism would tell you, we have to cover a lot of meetings. It is not uncommon for these meetings to be excruciatingly boring at times. It's at these times that I do my best work. I call them...

REPORTER DOODLES.

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Art critic Giovanni Lista (a real person) said this about this piece: "The artist was not afraid to bare his soul while creating this beautiful piece. The dimensions, attention to detail and truly courageous way Tim Barnum speaks from his heart with his ink pen are rare today. Quite frankly, it's the shiznit."

Lista and other critics consider this Modernism, but while drawing it, I felt it was more akin to great works in the Romanticism movement.

Let me talk you through it:

1. This is a spider web, with a big spider hanging from it.

2. Here, we show a man who can't seem to catch a break. Art buyers have called this drawing on the whole piece heart-wrenching. This fellow, known in classical art as a "stick figure" is on a overturned boat. A whale is waiting to eat him and birds are pooping on his head. I'm immature.

3. Notice the dimensions in the landscape outside of this two-story run-of-the mill suburb home. The tree is in the foreground, whilst the shrub is in the background. This drawing shows the diluted America dream, portrayed via a non-impressive house with average adornments.

4. Interpretation. What do you see? Is it a baby with three strands of hair on its head and one tooth, or is it a redneck with three strands of hair on his head and one tooth? Neither answer is correct. Yet, neither answer is wrong. There is only a head, the rest of the context of the man (or is it a baby girl?) is up to the viewer.

5. I got sick of drawing slashes, x's and little check marks. So I drew a big check mark.

6. Americana at its finest. A can of beer is American as (insert cliche "All-American" thing).

Many people have inquired about purchasing this piece. However, I feel you can't put a price on art. 

I'll take $200.